Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting pushtoNetSuite An emerald green glass bowl

An emerald green glass bowl and a bubbled hand blown glass stem are an unexpected pop of color for both casual and formal entertaining

non-toxic inks

Cast from elderberry branches native to New York State and intended to look like tree twigs

as a soap holder

or  even over a campfire

Melville's Inspiration Jenness Cortez 1998 Acrylic on Mahogany Wood Panel Painting pushtoNetSuite An emerald green glass bowlNo detail is left unturned in artist Jenness Cortez' oil on wood panel painting. Using inspiration from Nathaniel Currier's 1852 hand colored lithograph The Whale Fishery Laying On, W. L. Roderick's 1855 scrimshaw whale tooth, Joseph Oriel Eaton's 1870 portrait of Herman Melville, an American Folk Art Nantucket sperm whale nautical sailor whirligig and a 1827 clipping from the Nantucket Inquirer, the artist captures New England's island history and